Best Final Cut export to iDVD, 16:9

I apologize if this has been covered a lot, but I've struggled with this question for a couple of years.
How do you get a 16:9, 23.98fps Sequence, to export "as is" to iDVD? I've tried many different settings, but it seems that iDVD wants to interpret widescreen files, whether it's QT or other Compressor-exported formats as 4:3. A normal QT export doesn't work. Currently I'm exporting via Compressors DVD export, "H.264 for Apple Devices," but this export will take another five hours. Help! Thanks.

The workflow you point to is OK, but ...
Here is a different way I worked out, which has given me excellent results:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10840892&tstart=0
We are starting out with 16x9 widescreen high definition, either HDV (which I think has rectangular pixels) or in my case AVCHD (with square pixels). When I capture my 1080i camera clips in iMovie,my timeline has square pixels in either the full original camera resolution, or exactly half the vertical and horizontal resolution. Either way the conversion is very straightforward and should not introduce artifacts. I can do my rough cut in iMovie or immediately import into FCE and do all my editing there.
Since my goal is a widescreen DVD, which for me in NTSC-land is 720x480 anamorphic, it makes sense to use a DV-anamorphic timeline in FCE, which has exactly the same pixel count and aspect ratio. FCE seems to do a fine job of rendering an interlaced 16x9 square-pixel movie into anamorphic DV, and iDVD preserves the resolution in the final DVD (unlike its extremely poor direct rendering of output from iMovie). There is the one minor glitch - FCE does not properly flag its output as anamorphic - but Anamorphicizer takes care of that in a few seconds.
I am working with FCE 3.5. With 4.0 I could capture my camera files directly into FCE without using iMovie but I wonder whether iDVD might have the same kind of problems with square pixel widescreen from FCE that it does with iMovie. The movie comes out widescreen as expected, but the vertical resolution is at best about half what it should be. As a result diagonal lines show stair-step jaggies, and most pans ripple. You can eliminate those artifacts by using DV anamorphic in your FCE timeline. The down side is that when you do eventually want to create high resolution output, you will have to convert the timeline and re-render from the camera originals.

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